Personally, I find it rather relaxing to play, but the combat can be impossible. Where the enemy can use all the ships in their convoy at once, you can only use one at a time. Resulting in you slowly being slaughtered by the enemy and maybe destroying one of their ships.

I love this game. To ensure success in naval combat, always use Military Corvettes and/or Military Frigates as your escorts. When your first ship is at a minimum health that you specify (mine's 50%), just set it on a course to escape and then select your next ship. It comes onto the screen fresh and your first ship escapes. Rinse and repeat.

My objective is almost always to capture the enemy fleet. To do this, chain shot them until they slow down, then sail around grapeshotting their crews to death, then board them. If they happen to succeed in boarding one of your ships, just bring in another one and continue. Capturing military convoys is fun and easy.

Military Frigate is the best in my opinion, I use it as my main battleship, usually I will have 1 military frigate and 4 ship of the lines ( To carry more crew for looting town ), also with 5 trading flute ship, for carrying more loots.

Personally, I find it rather relaxing to play, but the combat can be impossible. Where the enemy can use all the ships in their convoy at once, you can only use one at a time. Resulting in you slowly being slaughtered by the enemy and maybe destroying one of their ships.

Not true, I think it can be rather fun - use one frigate against 5, use the chain shot untill they cant move, then use grape shot to take away the whole crew and finally board them and take their ships - whole battle won with one ship ;)